Supercourse Newsletter 9-May-02
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Dear Friends,
Lectures, Lectures, and More Lectures!!
The lectures continue to roll in. We now have 738 lectures, up from
718 last week. In just one week 20 lectures were submitted. We al-
ready have commitments for another 20 lectures. It seemed impossible
that we would have 1000 lectures by the end of the year, but now it
appears probable. Thanks so very much.
Hits, Hits, and More Hits!!
Finally the University of Pittsburgh "Univac" computer system has de-
veloped a system to monitor the hits to our site, and the results
were astonishing. The www.pitt.edu/~super1/ site is averaging 26,000
hits a day. This comes out to over 9,500,000 hits a year at the
Pittsburgh site alone. We have an additional 30 sites which likely
average 1 million hits a year each. World wide each year, therefore,
the Supercourse is being accessed about 40 million times, or 109,000
hits a day, 4600 hits an hour, and 76 hits a minute. At this rate, in
25 years, we will have had a billion hits. Not bad for a bunch of
people interested in prevention. This does not include people visit-
ing the CDs. Hits are a very crude index of access, but most cer-
tainly many people are visiting. It is likely that we have made the
Supercourse into one of the most, if not the most important sources
of prevention information. The word is getting out rapidly, if you
want prevention lectures, go to the Supercourse.
We may be able to look at the page views and be able to see what lec-
tures are being utilized the most. This is exciting, as it could help
to show us the directions that we should gather lectures.
Bioterrorism:
We would like your help. As we told you, we submitted a grant on
bioterrorism to the NIH. This is the one that was put onto the web at
www.pitt.edu/~super2/GRANT2/. It was recently reviewed, and turned
down. The reviewers were correct in that we did not include a review
of the literature of terrorism/bioterrorism. In addition, we did not
include a listing of possible lectures we would include in the ter-
rorism Supercourse. We would appreciate if you could help us to sug-
gest possible lectures that we would want to include on terrorism and
bioterrorism. Please write to Ron at <ronlaporte@aol.com> if you can
help out.
Position:
In September we likely will have a 1 year opening for a person inter-
ested in pursuing a master's of public health and becoming a cyber-
doc. We would appreciate if you could inform really good people about
this opportunity.
Thank you very much.
Best Regards from Pittsburgh
Ron, Akira, Faina, Mita, Eun Ryoung, Fan, Eugene, Rania, Abed, Julia,
Beatriz, Luiza, Fred, Tom, Deb
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Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D.
Director, Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications
WHO Collaborating Center
Professor of Epidemiology
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Cell +1-412-400-3751
Work +1-412-383-2746
mailto:super2+@pitt.edu
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